The biggest issue for me now is finding time while forking a day job in NYC with a hour commute each way.OTOH, if by the time your are 65+ you may be just totally fed up with this business and want to cash out and hopefully by this time you have built up a good amount of equity in your investments if you bought right and managed right you should be in a great position to cash out and find truly passive investments if that's what you desireIt's also hard to predict how one will feel 15 20 years into the future.

It is impossible to predict vacancy rates.  

Also it doesn't do much for predicting other than that maybe you can infer metros won't move too far per year...I was thinking more of something that would allow us to look at various socioeconomic trends and draw conclusions.  

I'm sorry if this question seems a bit broad, but I'm really just getting into REI and see all these posts about people speculating on the performance of a given market in the next 5-10 years, and I was just wondering what exactly you're looking at to make those predictions?

You cant predict the future 

San Antonio is about 10 years behind cities like Austin, Dallas, Houston, so they are just now at the beginning of what I predict will be rapid growth, development, revitalization, $$$$ to be gained.

It is somewhat of a catch-22 for syndicators, I imagine, as they want to show good projections, when in fact no one can predict what next year will bring.

I suggest you don't put these details in the Living Trust agreement as you have to provide it to lenders and title and it will raise 100 mucky questions like: what happens if market crashes, cost of long term care and million other things that can happen over a lifetime.I am not a CPA or an attorney you need someone smart who can predict all the future events to prepare in an operating agreement of sorts.

I predict you will have RE agents turning in these folks left and right..WE who have been in the business for any number of years know the call...

Read the fine print on those reports, they set themselves up to have as much liability as a weatherman does for predicting the weather.